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  Student course (first exam 2025) Free

  ToolsLearnActivity: Measurement and uncertaintyActivity: Mini investigation and exampleActivity: Making a videoExperimentPractical: Density of plasticine and Support pageStudyStudent notes: Measurement...

  26 February 2024
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  After November 2024, this will become the homepage of the whole website, because we will all be teaching the 2023+ Guide. Until then, this is where you will find what you need to teach the new course...

  24 January 2024
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  Teaching Sequences for the 2023 Guide Free

  There are lots of factors to consider when planning a teaching sequence for a new Guide.LogisticalPedagogical The headline is that teachers probably shouldn't teach in the same order that the guide is...

  10 March 2024
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  A1 plan: Kinematics

  Big pictureGuiding questionsThe physics course will commence (for most of us) with the idea of motion - both qualitative and quantitative - and we are prompted through the guiding questions to discuss...

  9 September 2023
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  B1 plan: Thermal energy transfers

  Big pictureGuiding questionsThe guiding questions get us to consider the concepts involved in thermal energy transfers and the links between our microscopic model for gases and the macroscopic measurements...

  9 September 2023
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  Student course (2024) Free

  Welcome to the ThinkIB student pages! We hope you will enjoy reading our Study Guide and attempting the Activities and Tasks. The Interactive Textbook is under development.Physics is all about deriving...

  24 January 2024
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  Student course (first exam 2025)

  B1 Thermal energy transfers

  Matter is made of particles, and these particles have rrelative atomic masses that you will learn how to find. You will also define the mole (a really large number of particles). In this Activity, you...

  22 June 2023
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  A2 plan: Forces and momentum

  Big pictureGuiding questionsWith students (probably) already having some ideas about vectors from their study of motion quantities, it will follow quite naturally that forces too can be represented by...

  9 September 2023
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  C2 plan: Wave model

  Big pictureGuiding questionsThere are many ways of categorising waves. The big example is whether a wave is transverse or longitudinal. But what makes a wave mechanical? How do we distinguish between...

  9 September 2023
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  C1 plan: Simple harmonic motion

  Big pictureGuiding questionsWith C1 being our introduction to the wave model, we are well-placed to explore oscillations in detail. After all, it is a series of oscillations in adjacent particles that...

  9 September 2023
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  Student course (first exam 2025)

  B4 Thermodynamics

  Heat is work and work is heat!This activity introduces the energy changes associated with gas transformations. You will state the first law of thermodynamics in terms of heat, internal energy and work,...

  3 February 2024
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  Teaching plans (2024)

  Welcome to the homepage for teachers with classes concluding exams up to November 2024. Here you will find unit and lesson plans, tests and information about internal and external assessment.

  24 January 2024
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  Examinations

  From 2025, DP physicists will sit two examinations. Here we'll take a look at what these contain and how students can prepare.

  23 March 2024
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  Teaching plans (2024)

  SL units, lessons & tests

  A core is the centre of something but I'm not sure that the syllabus core is really the centre, I would call it the base since it's the basics that everything else is built upon. The old syllabus was...

  8 February 2023
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  Required practicals Free

  This is the list of 10 required practicals that you must include on the 4psow. The reason you have to do these is that there will be a question on paper 3 that related to one of them. There are many ways...

  8 August 2019
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  Criteria

  There are four criteria in this internal assessment: research design, data analysis, conclusion and evaluation. Each criterion has equal weighting, so it's important to retain focus from start to finish.

  10 October 2023
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  Teaching plans (2024)

  Astrophysics

  The Astrophysics option includes stellar quantities, stellar characteristics, stellar evolution, cosmology and stellar processes.

  15 December 2018
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  Student course (first exam 2025)

  C1 Simple harmonic motion

  One object can oscillate, and this oscillation may take the form of simple harmonic motion.

  22 June 2023
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  Teaching plans (first exam 2025)

  B2 plan: Greenhouse effect

  Big pictureGuiding questionsThe inclusion of the greenhouse effect in the theme of the particulate nature of matter is perfectly reasonable because the atmosphere is made of particles and the earth is...

  9 September 2023
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  Student course (first exam 2025)

  B2 Greenhouse effect

  You might think of a flapjack or the wall socket as being your go-to source of energy, but ultimately all the energy stored in fuels originates from the Sun. Here you'll find out how to explain this and...

  22 June 2023